Biography of Thomas Howard 3rd Earl Berkshire 1619-1706

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In 1614 [his father] Thomas Howard 1st Earl Berkshire [aged 26] and [his mother] Elizabeth Cecil Countess Berkshire [aged 18] were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] William Cecil 2nd Earl Exeter [aged 48] and [his grandmother] Elizabeth Drury Countess Exeter [aged 35]. He the son of Thomas Howard 1st Earl Suffolk [aged 52] and Catherine Knyvet Countess Suffolk [aged 50]. They were fourth cousins.

On 14th November 1619 Thomas Howard 3rd Earl Berkshire was born to [his father] Thomas Howard 1st Earl Berkshire [aged 32] and [his mother] Elizabeth Cecil Countess Berkshire [aged 23].

In 1621 [his father] Thomas Howard 1st Earl Berkshire [aged 33] was created 1st Viscount Andover in Hampshire, 1st Baron Howard of Charlton in Wiltshire. [his mother] Elizabeth Cecil Countess Berkshire [aged 25] by marriage Baroness Howard of Charlton in Wiltshire.

On 7th February 1626 [his father] Thomas Howard 1st Earl Berkshire [aged 38] was created 1st Earl Berkshire. [his mother] Elizabeth Cecil Countess Berkshire [aged 30] by marriage Countess Berkshire.

On 10th April 1637 [his brother] Charles Howard 2nd Earl Berkshire [aged 22] and [his sister-in-law] Dorothy Savage Countess Berkshire were married. She the daughter of Thomas Savage 1st Viscount Savage and Elizabeth Darcy 1st Countess Rivers [aged 56]. He the son of [his father] Thomas Howard 1st Earl Berkshire [aged 49] and [his mother] Elizabeth Cecil Countess Berkshire [aged 41]. They were third cousin once removed.

Around 1648 [his illegitimate daughter] Mary "Moll" Davis was born illegitimately to Thomas Howard 3rd Earl Berkshire [aged 28]. She may possibly have been a daughter of his older brother Charles Howard 2nd Earl Berkshire [aged 33].

In 1655 [his daughter] Mary Howard was born to Thomas Howard 3rd Earl Berkshire [aged 35].

Before 16th June 1659 [his son-in-law] Henry Winchcombe 1st Baronet [aged 16] and Frances Howard Lady Winchcombe were married. She by marriage Lady Winchcombe of Bucklebury in Berkshire. She the daughter of Thomas Howard 3rd Earl Berkshire [aged 39].

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 14th January 1668. Thence by coach to Mrs. Pierce's, where my wife and Deb. is; and there they fell to discourse of the last night's work at Court, where the ladies and Duke of Monmouth [aged 18] and others acted "The Indian Emperour"; wherein they told me these things most remark able: that not any woman but the Duchesse of Monmouth [aged 16] and Mrs. Cornwallis [aged 18] did any thing but like fools and stocks, but that these two did do most extraordinary well: that not any man did any thing well but Captain O'Bryan, who spoke and did well, but, above all things, did dance most incomparably. That she did sit near the players of the Duke's house; among the rest, [his illegitimate daughter] Mis Davis [aged 20], who is the most impertinent slut, she says, in the world; and the more, now the King [aged 37] do show her countenance; and is reckoned his mistress, even to the scorne of the whole world; the King gazing on her, and my Baroness Castlemayne [aged 27] being melancholy and out of humour, all the play, not smiling once. The King, it seems, hath given her a ring of £700, which she shews to every body, and owns that the King did give it her; and he hath furnished a house for her in Suffolke Street most richly, which is a most infinite shame. It seems she is a bastard of Colonell Howard, my Lord Berkshire [aged 48], and that he do pimp to her for the King, and hath got her for him; but Pierce says that she is a most homely jade as ever she saw, though she dances beyond any thing in the world. She tells me that the Duchesse of Richmond [aged 20] do not yet come to the Court, nor hath seen the King, nor will not, nor do he own his desire of seeing her; but hath used means to get her to Court, but they do not take.

John Evelyn's Diary. 3rd June 1669. Went to take leave of Lord Howard, going Ambassador to Morocco. Dined at Lord Arlington's [aged 51], where were the Earl of Berkshire [aged 49], Lord Saint John, Sir Robert Howard, and Sir R. Holmes.

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On 16th July 1669 [his father] Thomas Howard 1st Earl Berkshire [aged 81] died. His son [his brother] Charles [aged 54] succeeded 2nd Earl Berkshire, 2nd Viscount Andover in Hampshire, 2nd Baron Howard of Charlton in Wiltshire. [his sister-in-law] Dorothy Savage Countess Berkshire by marriage Countess Berkshire.

In 1672 [his mother] Elizabeth Cecil Countess Berkshire [aged 76] died.

John Evelyn's Diary. 15th July 1675. Our cause was pleaded in behalf of the mother, Mrs. Howard [aged 49] and her daughters, before Baron Thurland [aged 68], who had formerly been steward of Courts for me; we carried our cause, as there was reason, for here was an impudent as well as disobedient son [aged 26] against his mother, by instigation, doubtless, of his wife, one Mrs. Ogle [aged 23] (an ancient maid), whom he had clandestinely married, and who brought him no fortune, he being heir-apparent to the Earl of Berkshire [aged 60] [Note. The reference to heir apparent is incorrect insofar as Charles Howard 2nd Earl Berkshire having a younger brother Thomas Howard 3rd Earl Berkshire [aged 55] who did inherit the Earldom]. Craven in line to inherit in the event the 2nd or 3rd Earl didn't have issue which proved to be the case but Craven had died by that time so his son Henry Bowes Howard 4th Earl Berkshire 11th Earl Suffolk became the 4th Earl. We lay at Brickhill, Bedfordshire, in Bedfordshire, and came late the next day to our journey's end.

In April 1679 Charles Howard 2nd Earl Berkshire [aged 64] died. His brother Thomas [aged 59] succeeded 3rd Earl Berkshire, 3rd Viscount Andover in Hampshire, 3rd Baron Howard of Charlton in Wiltshire.

On 1st April 1706 [his daughter] Mary Howard [aged 51] died.

On 12th April 1706 Thomas Howard 3rd Earl Berkshire [aged 86] died. His great nephew Henry [aged 20] succeeded 4th Earl Berkshire, 4th Viscount Andover in Hampshire, 4th Baron Howard of Charlton in Wiltshire.

[his daughter] Frances Howard Lady Winchcombe was born to Thomas Howard 3rd Earl Berkshire. She married before 16th June 1659 Henry Winchcombe 1st Baronet and had issue.

Ancestors of Thomas Howard 3rd Earl Berkshire 1619-1706

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Howard 3rd Duke of Norfolk 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Tilney Countess of Surrey 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Howard Earl of Surrey 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Stafford 3rd Duke of Buckingham 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Stafford Duchess Norfolk 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Percy Duchess Buckingham 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Howard 4th Duke of Norfolk 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John de Vere 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John de Vere 15th Earl of Oxford 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Colbroke

Great x 2 Grandmother: Frances Vere Countess of Surrey 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Trussell

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Trussell Countess of Oxford 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Donne 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

GrandFather: Thomas Howard 1st Earl Suffolk 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Ralph Audley

Great x 3 Grandfather: Geoffrey Audley

Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Audley 1st Baron Audley Walden

Great x 1 Grandmother: Margaret Audley Duchess Norfolk 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Grey 2nd Marquess Dorset 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Grey Baroness Audley 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Wotton of Boughton Malherbe

Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Wotton Marchioness Dorset

Father: Thomas Howard 1st Earl Berkshire 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edmund Knyvet 8 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Knyvet 9 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Knyvet of Charlton Wiltshire 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Muriel Howard Viscountess Lisle 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Tilney Countess of Surrey 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Knyvet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: James Pickering 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Christopher Pickering 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Pickering 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Roger Lewknor

Great x 3 Grandmother: Jane Lewknor 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Tuchet 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

GrandMother: Catherine Knyvet Countess Suffolk 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Stumpe

Thomas Howard 3rd Earl Berkshire 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: David Cecil

Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Cecil

Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Dicons

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Heckington

Great x 3 Grandmother: Jane Heckington

Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Cecil 1st Earl Exeter

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Cheke

Great x 3 Grandfather: Peter Cheke

Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Cheke

GrandFather: William Cecil 2nd Earl Exeter 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Neville 2nd Baron Latimer of Snape 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Neville 3rd Baron Latimer 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Stafford Baroness Latimer 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Neville 4th Baron Latimer of Snape 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: George de Vere 6 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Dorothy de Vere 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Stafford 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Dorothy Neville Countess Exeter 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Somerset 1st Earl of Worcester 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Herbert 3rd Baroness Herbert Raglan 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Lucy Somerset Baroness Latimer Snape 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Anthony Browne 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Lucy Neville 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Mother: Elizabeth Cecil Countess Berkshire 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Drury

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Drury 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Calthorpe 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Drury 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Sothill

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Sothill

Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Empson

Great x 1 Grandfather: William Drury 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Rich

Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich

Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Dinley

Great x 2 Grandmother: Audrey Rich

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Jenks

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich

GrandMother: Elizabeth Drury Countess Exeter 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Humphrey Stafford 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Humphrey Stafford 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Fray

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Stafford 14 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Fogge

Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Fogge

Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Haute

Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Stafford 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Stafford 3rd Duke of Buckingham 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Stafford 1st Baron Stafford 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Percy Duchess Buckingham 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Dorothy Stafford 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Pole 8 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Ursula Pole 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret York aka Pole Countess of Salisbury 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Biography of Thomas Howard 3rd Earl Berkshire 1619-1706

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